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System Backup and Restore

Providing IT Pros with Best-in-class Backup Technology Integrated into the Leading IT Automation Solution.

Did you know that natural disasters, such as hurricane or flood only account for approximately 2% of all business disasters while hardware failures and human error account for more than 70%?

Let’s face it, as an IT professional, anything that interrupts normal business operations could form the basis of disaster for you. Just remember, whatever the cause of your interruption, how you prepare to respond that will decide the fate of your business - So, are you prepared?

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Statistics show that only 35% of businesses have a Disaster Recovery plan and of those, only 28% regularly test their plan.

Kaseya System Backup and Restore (KSBR) makes centralised management of your backup and recovery needs simple and automated, so you can ensure your plans are in place and on track.

Kaseya System Backup and Restore is powered by the industry leading StorageCraft ShadowProtect engine, and provides imaged-based backup technology to take live real-time snapshots of your entire systems for fast, complete system recovery.

Kaseya System Backup and Restore brings you all the benefits of image-based backup:

  • Hardware independent recovery
  • Complete OS and Application backup
  • Faster recovery times
  • Bootable backups
  • Bare Metal restore

As you would expect from the leader in IT Automation, a centralized management approach and single-pane-of-glass view are at the heart of the System Backup and Restore product. KSBR allows you to greatly simplify deploying and managing backup across multiple machines and sites and even multiple organizations by leveraging profiles for backup settings and by providing centralised visibility through dashboards.

  • Central deployment of KSBR backup engine to any remote site/machine
  • Take over management of existing ShadowProtect installs
  • Centrally managed profiles to automate backup settings
  • Alerts and dashboards for central visibility across sites
  • Centrally defined schedules that are enforced locally
  • Quickly mount backups to access files and folders

System Backup & Restore Hightlights

Automated Deployment

Centrally and remotely deploy KSBR to managed machines and also bring existing StorageCraft installations under management from with the Kaseya UI.

Setup Wizard

Interactive summary takes you through the key steps involved in deployment and setup, making it quick and easy to get familiar with the main elements of using KSBR to manage backup.

Dashboard

Quickly review information from all backups to see when backups are completed, when errors occur, when the next backup is scheduled, what the backup source is and what the configured destination is for backups. Everything you need to know about all of your backups in one easy to read dashboard.

Status

See real-time live status of backups as they take place showing elapsed and remaining time estimates and throughput of backups in Bytes-per-Second.

Backup Mount

From within the Kaseya console, you can pick any previously completed backup and mount it as a browsable drive on any KSBR machine on the same network.

Profile Management

Continuing Kaseya’s established convention of easy to automate settings, System Backup and Restore uses Profiles to support all the main settings for backups allowing you to create multiple profile types and assign them as needed across multiple machines, making setup quick and easy.

Simplified Organisation

Organized into cabinets, KSBR makes it easy to create and manage multiple profiles to incorporate the multitude of backup scenarios you need to support across sites and organizations.

Wizard Driven Approach

The Edit Profile wizard steps you through all of the necessary information to control your backup processes such as Drive Selection including automatic drive selection for fixed and removable drives, destination settings, schedule and detail options such as splitting images, encryption, task execution controls, MD5 parity check, performance throttling and much more.

Advanced Scheduling

For resilience and complete flexibility, the KSBR module gives you all the options in the UI you would expect for complete schedule control and then once set in profiles, these schedule options are sent to the local scheduler to ensure that backup schedules are retained and executed irrespective of the current Agent status. Advanced Scheduling options give you the flexibility to set regular weekly and monthly full backups with a different schedule for incrementals in between.

Alerts

It’s essential with something as critical as backup to have immediate visibility of import events. Alerts give you visibility of successful, completed and failed backups as well as low storage warnings and missed schedules. Of course as with all Kaseya alerts, you can decide how best to receive them either inside the product, in your email inbox or even using automated remediation by running a procedure.

Detailed History

Between the Backup History and Application Logging you can find detailed information about every backup process and every setting change within the module to track all changes and troubleshoot any backup issues.

KSBR Server

Powered by the StorageCraft ShadowProtect engine and deployed and managed through the KSBR module, the KSBR Server product provides fast and reliable disaster recovery, data protection and system migration to get servers back online as quickly as possible. From the moment a server goes down, your business may be suffering, KSBR Server enables you to meet the strictest Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for your critical server based systems.

  • Recover to dissimilar hardware and to and from virtual environments
  • VirtualBoot technology for quick failover to a virtual server.
  • Built-in conversion to .VHD or .VMDK
  • Best-in-class VSS support for highly reliable backup of in-use systems and databases
  • Continuous Incremental Backups to simplify offsite replication and lower bandwidth
  • Encrypted Images for security and compliance
  • Multiple Schedules per device for complete flexibility
  • Automatic backup of SQL, Exchange, SharePoint, CRM and other critical applications
  • Simplified migration to new Windows servers


KSBR SBS

Microsoft's Small Business Server has been a popular stalwart of the small business sector for many years by providing a powerful combination of business applications in one system. However, that means these businesses are now completely dependent on these systems for continued business operations, they have unwittingly created a single-point of failure for business critical systems.

KSBR SBS gives you the full power of the ShadowProtect® engine specifically designed for this popular business system and provides a cost effective means to provide enterprise class protection and recovery that can be centrally deployed and managed from the same single-pane-of-glass as the rest of your systems management platform.

And if the worst does happen, your entire system can be back up and running within minutes in a virtual machine, or restored onto different hardware in no time, complete not only with all of your precious data, but all of your applications and systems up and running exactly as they were before.

  • Recover to dissimilar hardware and to and from virtual environments
  • VirtualBoot technology for quick failover to a virtual server
  • Industry leading VSS support for highly reliable backup of in-use systems
  • Encrypted Images for security and compliance
  • Automatic backup of SQL, Exchange, SharePoint, CRM and other critical applications
  • Granular recovery of individual files and folders in moments
  • Simplified migration to new server
  • Continuous Incremental Backups to simplify offsite replication

KSBR Workstation

More businesses are becoming decentralized and as a result, workers increasingly rely on mobile computing. In addition, many small businesses are relying upon desktops and laptops to run important functions in their organizations. Losing a system - whether to loss, theft, damage or virus attacks - can be catastrophic to many businesses. That's why many organizations are making data backup and disaster recovery a priority for their desktop computers.

KSBR utilizes the ShadowProtect® Desktop™ engine to provide an automated backup that works in the background. In the event of a disaster, the flexible recovery options allow complete granular recovery of files and folders or full bare metal recovery, all in a matter of minutes. Hardware Independent Restore (HIR) technology makes it quick and easy to recover to dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual environments.

  • Back to work in minutes with recover to dissimilar hardware
  • Migrate to and from virtual environments
  • VirtualBoot technology for quick failover to a virtual machine
  • Industry leading VSS support for highly reliable backup of in-use systems
  • Encrypted Images for security and compliance
  • Automatic backup of Microsoft Office and other productivity applications
  • Granular recovery of individual files and folders in moments
  • Continuous Incremental Backups to simplify offsite replication
  • Verification and reverification of backup images.



ImageManager

ImageManager allows you to consolidate point-in-time backup images on a daily, weekly and monthly basis for simplified management. Automatic verification and reverification tools ensure your backups are in a known “good state” when recovery is necessary. ImageManager also helps you harness the security of replicating backup files to an offsite location, such as a private cloud or data center in one of two ways:

  • Transport backup files with the ultra-rapid ShadowStream™ technology
  • Replicate images using intelligentFTP™

Take Control
The most important backup you need is the one you store locally, to help you recover from the most common disaster you’ll likely face — server failure. ImageManager also has the option of HeadStart Restore®, which lets you automate recovery to minimize downtime.

  • Accelerated, automated off-site file replication with new ShadowStream™* technology
  • Off-site image replication with intelligentFTP™*
  • LAN- and WAN-based replication*
  • Bandwidth throttling to control network usage
  • Rapid recovery in minutes with HeadStart Restore®*
  • Automatic consolidation of backup files to reduce disk space
  • Ability to set retention policies for local and offsite backup images
  • Verification and reverification of backup images
  • Email notification of backup image status

ShadowStream
Accelerates transfer of backups to an offsite location, such as a private cloud or data center.

intelligentFTP
Smart FTP replication to an off-site location. Your intelligentFTP license also gives you replication to LAN- or WAN-based destinations.

HeadStart Restore
Dramatically reduce recovery time objectives by pre-staging your backup image as a virtual machine and restore your system in just a few minutes.

Consolidation
Streamline backup image management by consolidating daily, weekly and monthly backups.

Retention
Minimize storage use by saving only the backup images you need.

Verification
Verify and re-verify backup images so you’re sure you can recover them after a disaster.


*Separate License required for iFTP, ShadowStream and HeadStart Restore Products